MENDIETA v. STATE

No. 1108-83.

706 S.W.2d 651 (1986)

Joe Laredo MENDIETA, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas, En Banc.

March 19, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donald S. Gandy, court appointed, Fort Worth, for appellant.

Tim Curry, Dist. Atty. and C. Chris Marshall, Brent A. Carr and Tom Myers, Asst. Dist. Attys., Fort Worth, Robert Huttash, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.

Before the court en banc.


OPINION ON APPELLANT'S PETITION FOR DISCRETIONARY REVIEW

McCORMICK, Justice.

Appellant was convicted of voluntary manslaughter. On direct appeal, appellant argued that the trial court erred in refusing to charge the jury on the lesser included offense of criminally negligent homicide. The Court of Appeals affirmed appellant's conviction, Mendieta v. State, 659 S.W.2d 489 (Tex.App.-Fort Worth, 1983). We granted appellant...

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